Enabling secure remote work by embracing Zero Trust
Steve Faehl is Microsoft’s U.S. security chief technology officer, responsible for helping organizations develop strategies to reduce risk by improving their cyber defenses. One of the greatest challenges we often hear from public and private sector CIOs, when it comes to achieving a Zero Trust IT operating environment, is the question of how to tackle such a massive undertaking — and where and how to begin. If there was one lesson we learned at Microsoft as we sought to establish Zero Trust security principles internally — and we learned many lessons — it was the importance of starting with a fundamental premise: To build out assurances in places where we traditionally relied on implicit trust. That premise began at Microsoft with one of Bill Gates’ famous internal strategy memos on “trustworthy computing.” While the term Zero Trust hadn’t yet been coined, the concept and principles are essentially the same. They […]
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